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  1. [BECKFORD, William.]

    Vathek, conte arabe.

    Paris, Poinçot; Chatellerault, P. J....

    Extremely rare, the only traced copy, of...

    £3750

  2. APPIA, Béatrice.

    A fine collection of manuscript and typescript...

    Paris, 1934–6.

    An extraordinary series of love letters,...

    £5000

  3. BACON, Francis.

    Historia vitae et mortis.

    Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1663.

    Pocket-sized Amsterdam editions of three...

    £975

  4. BARING-GOULD, Sabine.

    Iceland: its Scenes and Sagas ... With...

    London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1863.

    First edition of this account of a visit...

    £350

  5. BLACKMORE, Richard, Sir.

    King Arthur. An Heroick Poem. In twelve...

    London, Awnsham and John Churchil, and...

    First edition. Blackmore’s first Arthurian...

    £650

  6. CARTARI, Vincenzo.

    Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...

    Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556.

    First edition of Cartari’s influential...

    £800

  7. COLLIN DE BLAMONT, François.

    Les festes grecques et romaines, ballet...

    Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Ballard, 1723.

    First edition of the first ‘Ballet-héroïque’,...

    £3500

  8. GIOVANNI GUALBERTO, Saint.

    Sanctus Ioannes Gualbertus Florentinus...

    [S.l., s.n.,] 1774.

    A wonderful engraving, extremely rare,...

    £1250

  9. HOFMANNSTHAL, Hugo von.

    Die Aegyptische Helena. Oper in zwei Aufzügen.

    [Leipzig, Mainzer Presse for Insel-Verlag,...

    First edition of Hofmannsthal’s text...

    £750

  10. BRIDGES, Robert.

    Eros and Psyche, a Poem in XII Measures...

    [Gregynog], The Gregynog Press, 1935.

    One of 300 copies, one of the most beautiful...

    £1500

  11. FERDOWSĪ.

    Shāhnāmah.

    Tehran, Amir Kabir, AH 1350 [AD 1971].

    A lavishly produced edition of the Shāhnāmah...

    £4000

  12. IVANOV, Vyacheslav Ivanovich.

    Прометей трагедия [Prometei...

    St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1919.

    First edition of Ivanov’s dramatic poem...

    £250

  13. JAYADEVA; Friedrich MAJER, translator.

    Gita-Govinda, ein Indisches Singspiel …...

    Weimar, im Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs,...

    First and only separate edition of this...

    £475

  14. [LAFONT, Joseph de.]

    Hypermnestre, tragedie, mise au theatre...

    Lyon, de l’imprimerie d’Aymé Delaroche...

    Very scarce Lyon edition of the libretto...

    £175

  15. MUSGRAVE, Samuel.

    Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian...

    London, printed by J. Nichols, 1782.

    First edition of this work by the classical...

    £450

  16. PEACOCK, Thomas Love.

    Rhododaphne: or the Thessalian Spell. A Poem.

    London, T. Hookham, Jun., and Baldwin,...

    First edition of Peacock’s last and most...

    £750

  17. PIGHIUS, Stephanus Vinandus.

    Themis dea, seu de lege divina … Mythologia...

    Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1568.

    First edition of Pighius’s two treatises...

    £450

  18. PONTOPPIDAN, Erich.

    The Natural History of Norway containing...

    London, for A. Linde, 1755.

    First English edition, a nice copy likely...

    £1250

  19. RANK, Otto.

    Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden. Versuch...

    Leipzig and Vienna, Franz Deuticke, 1909.

    First edition of this psychoanalytical...

    £100

  20. SHEPHERD, Richard Herne.

    No. I. Studies of Sensation and Event by...

    London, Pickering & Co … 1878.

    An interesting collection of rare tracts,...

    £950